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Many kids come out of college, they have a credit card and a diploma. They don't know how to buy a house or a car or health insurance or life insurance. They do not know basic microeconomics.
Jesse Jackson

Life, Health, Car

There is no limit to what a man can do so long as he does not care a straw who gets the credit for it.
Charles Edward Montague

Care, Long, Limit

Historians will likely give Obama credit for steering the country away from the brink of economic collapse in 2009.
Ron Fournier

Give, Country, Away

I'm really proud of Twilight. I think it's a good movie. It was hard to do, and I think it turned out pretty good. But I don't take much credit for it. So when you show up at these places, and there's literally like a thousand girls and they're all screaming your name, you're like, why? You don't feel like you deserve it.
Kristen Stewart

Good, Hard, Pretty

When I became White House press secretary, there were other limitations that were thrust upon me. Bill Clinton was under pressure to appoint women to visible positions. I was 31, I'd never worked in Washington. Was I ready for this large and visible job? Still he wanted the credit. So he gave me the job but diminished the job.
Dee Dee Myers

Women, Job, Wanted

We don't take credit for our accomplishments. I can't tell you how many times you'll say to a woman, 'Oh God, what you did was so great', and they say, 'Really? I didn't think it was that good.'
Dee Dee Myers

Good, Great, God

Let me remind you that credit is the lifeblood of business, the lifeblood of prices and jobs.
Herbert Hoover

Business, Jobs, Remind

You have two pages, that's the whole credit card agreement. The terms are clear and flat and easy to see so anyone can read them. So you could lay four credit cards in front of you and say, 'Oh, that's the one that has the highest rate, that's the one that has the really scary provision that could hurt me.'
Elizabeth Warren

Hurt, Two, Whole

I get heartfelt thanks from all kinds of people. Today I heard from a waitress in Georgia who has lost her job and is trying to figure out how her local bank can change the terms on her credit card, and I heard from a physicist at a major research university who wants to explain a better theory of financial stress tests.
Elizabeth Warren

Change, Today, Job

Yes, Americans can still get credit for cars and trucks and refrigerators, and those businesses are doing well. But just try to get a home loan now.
Ben Stein

Home, Try, Cars

The people who did the collateralized mortgage obligations, sold them to pension funds, then sold them short, then bought credit default swap insurance on them, are just amazing. They are a law unto themselves.
Ben Stein

Amazing, Law, Short

People internalize, from the jail to student loan debt, to credit card debt, to unemployment to the whole collective. It manifests itself in many ways, in people's home lives, domestic stuff.
Jesse Jackson

Home, Whole, Lives

God's designs may be frequent justification for our actions, but it is we, the self-made men, who take the credit.
Arthur Erickson

If you don't have a functioning financial system the world economy won't be revived. All the major economies have their responsibility to assist at a pace which is required to clean up the balance sheet of the banking system and to ensure that credit flows are resumed.
Manmohan Singh

Balance, Won, Financial

You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul's own doing.
Marie Stopes

Beauty, Beautiful, Soul

He only seems to me to live, and to make proper use of life, who sets himself some serious work to do, and seeks the credit of a task well and skillfully performed.
Sallust

Life, Work, Live

I know that my works are a credit to this nation and I dare say they will endure longer than the McCarran Act.
Arthur Miller

Nation, Act, Longer

Once a nation parts with the control of its credit, it matters not who makes the laws.
William Lyon Mackenzie King

Control, Nation, Makes

A lot of times you get credit for stuff in your movies you didn't intend to be there.
Spike Lee

Movies, Times, Stuff

But if you want to continue to be slaves of the banks and pay the cost of your own slavery, then let bankers continue to create money and control credit.
Josiah Stamp

Money, Control, Create

Viewed from a distance, or through the eye of the All-Knowing CEO of the Universe, the crash of 2008 followed the usual pattern. A long-lived boom driven by cheap credit, going back as far as 1982 (though subject to interruptions in the mid-1980s and 1990s, and in 2001), came to grief because of a rise in the cost of borrowing money.
James Buchan

Money, Through, Universe

It's always seemed odd to me that after a group of terrorists commits a vile and odious deed they rush messages to the public to claim credit for it.
Russell Baker

After, Group, Public

The credit which the apparent conformity with recognized scientific standards can gain for seemingly simple but false theories may, as the present instance shows, have grave consequences.
Friedrich August von Hayek

Simple, May, Present

The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.
Benjamin Jowett

I'm sure my father had more to do with my career than I would like to give him credit for. I would love to think it was all me!
Laura Linney

Love, Father, Career

A check or credit card, a Gucci bag strap, anything of value will do. Give as you live.
Jesse Jackson

Live, Give, Value

It is not so important to be serious as it is to be serious about the important things. The monkey wears an expression of seriousness which would do credit to any college student, but the monkey is serious because he itches.
Robert M. Hutchins

Important, Serious, College

My mother gave me this book called Feature Films at Used Car Prices by a guy named Rick Schmidt. I gotta credit the guy, cuz he gave me the most practical advice. It empowers you.
Vin Diesel

Car, Mother, Book

Snooki is really beautiful and looks quite like Elizabeth Taylor in 'Cleopatra.' She has the same bone structure. I'm kind of obsessed with 'Jersey Shore.' People don't give them enough credit for how entertaining they are.
Margaret Cho

Beautiful, Give, Enough

George Bush taking credit for the wall coming down is like the rooster taking credit for the sun rising.
Al Gore

Down, Sun, Coming

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